Canadian Pilot Permits are not generally accepted outside of Canada unless a bilateral agreement of acceptance is in place with that country, even if both countries are ICAO members.

Cross-Border Surveys

Cross Border Survey Results

While searching for cross border statistics to provide to the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) regarding crossing the border in a Personal Aircraft, COPA could not find any recent data and decided to conduct a survey that would ask pilots’ trends.

COPA highlighted that the fundamental issue of CBSA IAPI, is the elimination of duplication. Since all pilots must complete the US eAPIS reports for entering and exiting the US, it would be a relatively simple extension for the US to send information to Canada for their security purposes. To provide data to CBSA, COPA conducted a survey in collaboration with AOPA and supported by APBQ, EAA US and EAA Canada.